Quotes About Value

When God sent His only Son, Jesus, to this earth to bear your sin and mine on the cross, He put a price tag on us—He declared the value of our soul to be greater than the value of the whole world. Whose opinion are you going to accept? Believing a lie will put you in bondage. Believing the Truth will set you free.

Indeed, the reason the fall is such a tragedy is precisely because humans have such high value to begin with. When a cheap trinket is broken, we toss it aside without a second thought. But when a priceless work of art is destroyed, we are heartbroken. The reason sin is so tragic is that it destroys a human being—a priceless masterpiece that reflects the character of the Supreme Artist.

You may not believe in God. . . . But I do, and because of that I believe in the value of all people. I believe we are all made in His image and likeness. That's why I believe all people are worth something. If you believe that people only get their value from each other, then people can take that away. But if our value comes from God, then nobody has the right to say someone who walks is worth more than someone who doesn't.74

Imagine how many sweaters I could knit for the price of your golf membership.

Your time is precious if you make use of it at the appropriate way, moment and right place.

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

We are not ruled by blind instinct like the beasts. Uniquely, we can listen to the commands of God, can understand them, yet can choose disobedience. It is this, and only this, which gives our obedience its value.

Enryo, self-restraint, was a Japanese cultural value that Mom emphasized

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?

They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.

Lomborg and his followers make the philosophical error of thinking that things that can't be counted don't count.

First life lesson: know your fucking worth. When you're about to sell your soul to the devil, get a better price.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Hay ladrones a los que no se castiga, pero que roban lo más preciado: el tiempo.

I feel scared and unsure of what to do next, but decide that no matter what happens, I'm glad I ran away. A pony like Smokey is worth fighting for - even if we did get him for free. A pony like Smokey is no small thing.

Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." … "Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." … "With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.